explained
past simple and past participle ofexplain
| 单词 | explained |
| 释义 | explained past simple and past participle ofexplain explain verb[IorT] uk/ɪkˈspleɪn/us/ɪkˈspleɪn/A2 to make somethingclearoreasytounderstandbydescribingor givinginformationabout it: If there's anything you don'tunderstand, I'll behappyto explain. Theteacherexplained therulestothechildren. [+ question word]Ourguideexplainedwherethecathedralwas. He explainedhowthemachineworked. Please could you explainwhy you're so late. [+ that]She explainedthatshe was going tostaywith hersister. [+ speech]"Someone must havehitthewrongbutton," anofficialexplained. Mollyaskedtheteacherif she could explain herselfa little moreclearly(= say moreclearlywhat shemeant). No one has beenableto explain(= give thereasonfor)theaccident. to explain something
to answer someone
explainyourself to givereasonsforyourbehaviour: He hadn't beenhomefor threedaysso Iaskedhim to explain himself.
Defining & explaining
GrammarExplain We use the verb explain to mean ‘make something clear or easy to understand, by describing or giving information about it’.…Phrasal verbexplainsomethingaway Examplesofexplainedexplained In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. The qualitative and quantitative relationship between these maps will beexplainedby the surgery construction in the next section. From theCambridge English Corpus The finding of differential effects on items of the same length cannot beexplainedby a purely quantitative constraint on storage. From theCambridge English Corpus These could beexplainedin purely psychological terms. From theCambridge English Corpus Asexplained, these representations result from the nature of visual processing. From theCambridge English Corpus The large number of small parties is usuallyexplainedin two ways. From theCambridge English Corpus Technical terms are generallyexplainedor removed and layouts include larger fonts, and more visual material than standard books. From theCambridge English Corpus These disparities could beexplainedby the different roles that livestock plays in different settings. From theCambridge English Corpus In these cases, strong responses differ substantially in measured amplitude in a way that is most readilyexplainedas the result of eye-movements. From theCambridge English Corpus I believe that the normative responses to reasoning tasks as well as the systematic deviations from them can beexplainedwithin a single reasoning system. From theCambridge English Corpus Although all the regression models were significant, theexplainedvariance varied greatly by the type of leisure activity. From theCambridge English Corpus The strong association between the two traits may not beexplainedsolely by the common developmental pathways. From theCambridge English Corpus Objects and persons become named andexplainedduring the sleep-to-waking transition. From theCambridge English Corpus They would not have come otherwise, heexplained, as many had no personal means of transport and their ejidos were not serviced by public transport. From theCambridge English Corpus One of the uses of dynamic predicates is memoization: this isexplainedwith an example. From theCambridge English Corpus Good recognition of a previously unseen prototype can beexplainedby its relatively large mean similarity to exemplars in its class. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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